1. Introducing The Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 Release
Software Corrections In This Release
Features Added in Previous Releases:
8. Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds in This Release
The new and changed features in the Installer include:
The list of components you can choose to install has changed. The selectable components now are:
Compiler support files (required by the C and C++ compilers)
C and C++ compilers
Fortran compiler
dbx debugger
dbxtool
dmake
DLight observability tool (Solaris platforms only)
IDE
Performance and Thread Analysis tools (Solaris platforms only)
Performance Library (Solaris platforms only)
ScaLAPACK (Solaris platforms only)
You can now install only the runtime libraries by starting either the GUI installer or the non-GUI installer with the –libraries-only option. This option installs the C++ libraries, the Fortran 90 libraries, the math libraries (Solaris platforms only).
If you are installing on a system with zones, you can now specify installation in the current zone only using a checkbox in the GUI installer, as well as from the command line when starting the non-GUI installer.
Alternative root installation is now supported only in the non-GUI installer, and not in the GUI installer.
The installers do not require you to accept a license.
There is no longer a restriction on the zone in which you can run the installer if you have previous Sun Studio releases installed on the system.